Hey guys, I just quit the game i was playing and looked as task manager and realised vprot.exe was using over 1.1gb of physical memory and my game was only using 500mb.

I know this is an application associated with AVG and wanted to know if i can permanently remove vprot.exe or heavily reduce it's resource usage as it really shouldn't need over 100mb of memory in my opinion.

I have tried disabling this application on startup using msconfig, but it still turns itself on.

When I disable vprot.exe through MSCONFIG.EXE, tab Start, and reboots, the NewTabPageShow comes up as wanted with dword:00000002.
Enabling vprot.exe again and reboot, the NewTabPageShow comes up with dword:00000000 (blank page).